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Andy Samberg (born August 18,1978 in Berkeley, California), also known as Ardy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. He is also a featured player on Saturday Night Live
. Samberg has also gained exposure on the Comedy Central series Premium Blend, performing a brief stand-up routine.

The Lonely Island

The Lonely Island (which also includes Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) has a popular website where they make their sketches and music available for download. Samberg played the role of Aaron in The OC parody The 'Bu, the group's popular contribution to Channel 101. They also made a pilot for Fox called Awesometown and have written for various award shows, most notably the 2004 and 2005 MTV Movie Awards.

Saturday Night Live

On September 13 2005, the Lonely Island website confirmed that Samberg would be joining Saturday Night Live as a featured player, while Schaffer and Taccone would join the show's writing staff.

While his live sketch roles have been limited in his first year, he has appeared in many non-live sketches, including commercial parodies filmed segments, labelled as Digital Shorts. Samberg's first appearance was a commercial parodying Morgan Stanley. For the December 17 2005 show, he and Chris Parnell starred in a Digital Short called Lazy Sunday, from which Samberg and the show gained significant media and public attention.

Samberg has had more prominence in non-live segments over live segments overall, including appearing as a young Chuck Norris, a hardcore gangster rapper in Viking apparel alongside Natalie Portman, a parody commercial for lettuce in which he and Will Forte took large bites out of heads of lettuce during lulls in a serious conversation, and in a game of spotting lookalikes which results in Samberg being suddenly and illogically shot by friends when he cannot be told apart from a large homeless man.

Trivia

Samberg is a Berkeley High School graduate, class of 1996.

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